📣 YEAR-ROUND ENROLLMENT:
--ALL STATES: Native American tribe members / AK Natives
--ALL STATES: If eligible for Medicaid/CHIP
--MA residents earning <300% FPL (ConnectorCare)
--MN residents earning <200% FPL (MinnesotaCare)
--NY residents earning <200% FPL (Essential Plan)
📣 SPECIAL ENROLLMENT PERIOD (SEP):
ALL STATES: If you have a Qualifying Life Event (QLE) such as losing existing coverage, moving, getting married/divorced, giving birth/adopting, getting out of jail or the military or turning 26 years old, you're eligible for a 60-day SEP.
Also, some people not fitting into ANY of the above *may still be able to enroll* for 2021 coverage due to FEMA emergency declarations: healthinsurance.org/special-enroll…
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🚨 GEORGIA: Your daily reminder that Tuesday's Senate runoff election could decide the fate of the #ACA and whether 500,000 Georgians lose healthcare as soon as May 1st: acasignups.net/20/11/13/two-r…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the asinine #TexasFoldEm case (brought by ~20 GOP state AGs, including the corrupt @KenPaxtonTX) in November.
They're expected to issue their final ruling sometime this spring or summer, possibly as early as April. 2/
The odds are good that they'll rule in favor of saving the #ACA...but there's no way of knowing, especially given the 6-3 GOP lean of the Court.
Fortunately, Congress can render the entire case moot by passing one of three simple bills: 3/
Remember when @tedcruz spearheaded a federal government shutdown specifically to stop the ACA exchanges from launching and all he accomplished was to take media attention away from the disastrous technical problems many ACA exchanges had at launch?
Those problems were quickly fixed, but it’s conceivable that @tedcruz’s asinine stunt was, in a weird way, sort of responsible for the ACA surviving that first crazy Open Enrollment period. Who knows how much worse the backlash might’ve been if the media was fully focused on it?
For the record, the ACA exchanges are funded via a completely different source from the general federal budget, so the shutdown had no impact on them whatsoever.
Counties w/highest rates of #COVID19 cases: 1. Crowley County, CO 2. Norton County, KS 3. Lincoln County, AR 4. Dewey County, SD 5. Bon Homme County, SD 6. Buffalo County, SD 7. Chattahoochee County, GA 8. Lake County, TN 9. Trousdale County, TN 10. Buena Vista County, IA
2/
27% of Crowley County, CO has tested positive for #COVID19.
85 of the top 100 counties voted for Trump (vs. 82% of all counties nationally).
3/
(Sigh) Here we go again. So what? Unless she revealed her secret plan to give them all the money in the world while assuring them she’d never regulate them if confirmed, who gives a shit?
That’s what pissed me off so much about Bernie’s demand that Hillary release transcripts of her rubber chicken dinner speeches( while refusing to release his tax returns). What exactly did he expect the transcripts to reveal?
I’ve sat through a few of these types of speeches (not from Hillary, but from other lesser big shots). They’re usually pretty forgettable. Some platitudes, a few bad jokes, a lot of “now more than ever” stuff while you’re debating whether to have another dinner roll. That’s it.